EPHESUS (Turkey) 2010

Ephesus was an ancient Greek city, and later a major Roman city, on the west coast of Asia and had a population of more than 250,000 in the 1st century BC, which also made it the second largest city in the world.

SWEET HOLIDAY TIME

Hello my dear friends,

I’ll give you a break...  My holiday time, for a next 21 days, will start  at last....

I leave tomorrow and this song  will stay with you in my absence....

When I return I hope it will be more to share. See you than...take care

 

JOSEPH HAYDN

This weekend I enjoyed the classical music of Joseph Haydn  and the beautiful  Esterházy Castle,  during my short journey in Austria.  

    JOSEPH HAYDN

   (March 31, 1732 – May 31, 1809)

Joseph Haydn was born in Rohrau in Austria, a village near the border with Slovakia. Haydn's parents had noticed that their son was musically talented and knew that in Rohrau he would have no chance to obtain any serious musical training. It was for this reason that they accepted a proposal from their relative Johann Matthias Frankh, the schoolmaster and choirmaster in Hainburg. It was only seven miles away from Rohrau and about 7 miles from the Slovakian border.

He was six years old. He was also a close friend of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and a teacher of Ludwig van Beethoven. In 1740 moved to Vienna, where he worked for the next nine years as a chorister. In 1760, with the security of a Kapellmeister position, Haydn married. His wife was the former Maria Anna Aloysia Apollonia Keller (1729–1800), the sister of Therese (b. 1733), with whom Haydn had previously been in love. Haydn and his wife had a completely unhappy marriage, from which the laws of the time permitted them no escape; and they produced no children. Both took lovers.

   

During the nearly thirty years that Haydn worked at the Nickolaus Esterházy court, he produced a flood of compositions, and his musical style continued to develop. His popularity in the outside world also increased

Forchtenstein Castle

The first part of the castle with its 50 meter high keep was built in the 13th century by the Lords of Mattersburg, who later named themselves Lords of Forchtenstein.

Around 1450 the Lords of Forchtenstein died off due to lack of a male heir and the castle was passed over to the House of Hapsburg, which owned it for 170 years. They leased it to others, including the Counts of Weissbriach and Hardegg. During this time the building was not changed significantly.

In 1622 Nickolaus Esterházy , founder of the western Hungarian Esterházy line, received the castle from Emperor Ferdinand II, and Esterházy became a Count. Nikolaus started to fortify the crumbling castle and refurbished it with the services of Vienna builder Simon Retacco from 1630 to 1634 and with Domenico Carlone from 1643.

The castle is still owned by the Esterházy family and, together with Castle Esterházy in Eisenstadt, it chronicles the history and treasures of this ancient aristocratic

Some sample of Mozart's opera Don Giovanni :

GOOD BYE - GÜLE GÜLE

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I’ll give you all a break for a 14 days. Tomorrow is starting my holiday time at last...I leave this picture for you to observe in my absence that beautiful Turkish architecture.

When I return I'll have more to share. Until the next time...take care
 

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Antalya

The elegant, fluted minaret og the Yivli Minareli Mosque in the center of the city, built in the 13th century, has become Antalya's symbol

Amphitheatre - probably dates from the 2nd century AD .
Only the upper rows of the auditorium are missing

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My holiday

Start:	Sep 13, '08 6:00p
End:	Sep 23, '08

I'm going to spend 10 days in Turkey

NYC BUILDINGS

That "X" sky is so awesome! I like the t-shirt idea someone mentioned. ANd here I am imagining all the possible Photoshop Phun with filling the blue "X" sky with just about anything! Maybe underwater coral reef, maybe outer space, maybe images from the Sistine Chapel?...

Love this pictures and the spirit they've shared!

OVER THE OCEAN

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My lovely Friends,

I'm leaving due to a business - trip tomorrow and

I'm back in the ten days...

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Sorry that I can't answer your mails, invitations and comments.

Be sure I'll do it, as soon as I'm back.

keep in touch my friends...

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 

MORNING MOOD

 

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Let me invite you to travel to Austria too, via my admirable photos of Austrian Alps.... When I see those paradise panorama at the height of 3.500 m, thinking about it...actually I’m blessed that Got give me the opportunity to share them, I don’t need to ask anything else. This feeling make me very happy, because I have the opportunity to live, share and enjoy those incredible places in the world...